Senior Enterprise Architect: Cloud Transformation Lead

Humana; New York (NY); Remote; USD 118,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

Humana is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and roadmaps. This remote role supports digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization efforts across the enterprise, guiding target-state architectures and governance.

The position requires 10+ years in architecture-related roles, strong leadership, and expertise in cloud technologies, security, and cost optimization. Occasional travel to Humana offices may be required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, software engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience in application design, software development, systems engineering, or technology architecture.
• Progressive experience as an enterprise architect, solution architect, cloud architect, or similar role.
• Experience leading architecture across multiple enterprise applications, platforms, or technology domains.
• Experience with cloud, hybrid-cloud, modernization, or legacy-system transformation initiatives.
• Knowledge of scalability, security, availability, and cost optimization.

Responsibilities

• Develop current-state, transition-state, and target-state architectures aligned with business and technology strategies.
• Lead architecture planning for complex enterprise, cloud, application modernization, and integration initiatives.
• Guide teams in designing, building, modernizing, and migrating applications and services to cloud environments.
• Establish reusable cloud patterns, reference architectures, frameworks, standards, playbooks, and guardrails.
• Evaluate technologies for scalability, security, interoperability, and cost alignment.
• Lead architecture reviews, workshops, and proofs of concept.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and modernization opportunities.
• Ensure solutions comply with governance, security, data-management, and architecture standards.
• Provide technical guidance through implementation and verify alignment with designs.
• Partner with business leaders, engineers, security teams, and vendors to resolve challenges.
• Present architecture options to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Provide thought leadership and coaching to architects and engineering teams.

Skills

Enterprise architecture

Cloud architecture

Solution design

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field

Master’s degree (preferred) in computer science, information systems or related field

Job description

Humana is seeking a Senior Enterprise Architect to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions and roadmaps. This remote role supports digital transformation, cloud adoption, and modernization efforts across the enterprise, guiding target-state architectures and governance.

The position requires 10+ years in architecture-related roles, strong leadership, and expertise in cloud technologies, security, and cost optimization. Occasional travel to Humana offices may be required.